[or-roots] Pass Creek stories

[Sue Steward]

There is a Pass Creek Covered Bridge in Drain which seems to be the Pass
Creek mentioned in the Meier and Frank story.  Couldn't find anything on a
Pass Creek Innc.

Sue


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Article published May 22, 2004



Covered Bridges






Covered bridges have been a staple of  Oregon life since territorial days.

In 1851, eight years before Oregon became a state, locals placed a roof on a
bridge crossing the Willamette River at Oregon City, where thousands of
emigrants ended their journey across the Oregon Trail.

Nearly 300 covered bridges were built throughout the state. About 60 have
survived, including seven in Douglas County.

PASS CREEK
Built in 1925, this bridge is owned by the city of Drain and is one of only
a few Oregon covered bridges located within city boundaries.

Pass Creek Bridge is the last remaining span of three that were built at
Drain, the other two being the Morningstar Bridge over Elk Creek and the
East Drain Bridge, which was upstream from Pass Creek Bridge.

The 61-foot-long Pass Creek Bridge was one of the oldest continually used
bridges remaining in the state when it was moved a few hundred yards
downstream in 1987. The first bridge at the original site was built in 1906,
then replaced by the current structure in 1925.

It now stands behind the Drain Civic Center at Third and A streets and is
open exclusively to foot traffic, which often includes teens walking to
classes at North Douglas High School.

http://www.newsreview.info/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20040522/DISCOVER04/105220066&template=printart


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Leslie Chapman" <khanjehgil at presys.com>
To: <or-roots at sosinet.sos.state.or.us>
Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2005 11:09 PM
Subject: [or-roots] Pass Creek stories


> Okay;
>
> You folks did so good on the missing needle of Pass Creek story, maybe
> somebody out there can answer a question for me; I have been trying to
> determine where the "Pass Creek Inn" from the 1880 Census is. As near as I
> have been able to determine it was probably in Shadybrook, which may or
may
> not appear in place names of Oregon references.
>
> I have two reasons to be interested in this, first of all I grew up just
> over the ridge from Shadybrook, but have never been there, and in the 1880
> Census some cousins of my Mother were managing the Inn, so I am really
> curious where it was.
>
> Les  Chapman
>
> >The year was 1853 and Grandmother Drain owned the only darning needle in
> Pass Creek Canyon, Oregon. It was the most cared-for-possession in the
small
> community of fifteen families! When clothing needed to be patched and
> mended, everyone knew Grandmother Drain would lend it out.>
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